Google Suggest in Firefox 2.0
11th August 2006
Some of you may have tried the rather nifty Google Suggest that auto-completes your search entry based on the most popular searched for queries. If you liked it, you’ll probably be glad to know that this functionality is going to be included by default in the search bar in Firefox 2.0.
Here is a shot of it in action:
Yahoo! also seems to provide suggestions in the beta, but I was unable to find a version of it on their site.
If you can’t wait for Firefox 2.0 to get out of beta to try this, here is an extension that will do mostly the same thing for current versions of the browser. The extension was coded by Google themselves, so hopefully that means it’s stable.
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